I signed up, and am not sure where to go from here.

Nothingtodo · Post by **Nothingtodo** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:28 pm

Ok, I signed up for a comic, (http://nothingtodo.comicgenesis.com/) read the Tutorials, But i don't understand what they are saying, or what I should do. I have comics made and ready to upload.

I checked the FAQ under " Help! I've just gotten my website and don't know where to begin! " and it told me to read The Step-By-Step Guide, but sadly I don't understand what it says. I am sorry to ask (I hate being a newb) but can I have some help? I got to the FTP and but know what I am doing, and I go to siteadmin and can not log in there...

Saeliah · Post by **Saeliah** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:26 pm

Have you checked the CGwiki already? You can upload your comics already using the FTP to the WORKSPACE in the comics folder.

But if its the site admin that you are having trouble with, I can't really answer since I have the same problem with the new one. =)

One of the advises given is to sign up here in the forum first. Then when you go to site admin, you enter your FORUM username and password. After that, you can add your website.

As for me, I am still waiting for an answer, hehehe....

Nothingtodo · Post by **Nothingtodo** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:58 pm

you mean this? http://cgwiki.comicgenesis.com/index.php/Tutorials I checked that... and I did use my forum log in (same name as my comic, dif pass) I uploaded comics... but nothing happened... so I got lost and looked at random things, but they all looked like stuff that might be bad to mess with unless you know what you are doing.

I just looked,the comics are in the comic folder, but I don't know what happens after that...

Saeliah · Post by **Saeliah** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:11 pm

Hmn, if I recall correctly, you have to go into site admin and click update. Then it will automatically update.

As for the site admin, I have no answer for that since I am also awaiting answer for it. Seems a lot of ppl are having trouble about it. Old and new alike. =)

Nothingtodo · Post by **Nothingtodo** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:05 pm

oh well if it's not just me, I hope they fix it soon. won't my comic get killed in 20 days or something like that if I don't update?

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:02 am

The first thing that you will need is an FTP program. Which FTP program are you using? (An FTP program will let you put things onto the server, a browser will only let you look at what is already there.)

I'll assume that you have one (since you say that there are comics in the comics folder) but be aware that there are two comics folders. One is public_html/comics and one is workspace/comics. You want to put your comic images into the workspace/comics folder.

Have you changed any of the templates? There should be two files, one called indextemplate.html and one called dailytemplate.html in your workspace folder. Leave them alone for now.

You don't really need to log into siteadmin to get your comic going. So long as you have some comic images in the workspace/comics folder then they should get moved when the server updates your comic.

Oh, and what did you name the comics? You need to name them something like YYYYMMDD.jpg (or .gif or .png) where Y = year M = month and D = day. So the comic for christmas last year would be called 20061225.jpg (or .png or .gif). If you named your comics 20111225.jpg then they won't be displayed until the year 2011...